Re: Why The Cover-Up?

From: Paul Scott Anderson <paulscottanderson.nul>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:31:51 -0700
Archived: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:04:23 -0400
Subject: Re: Why The Cover-Up?
>From: Jerome Clark <jkclark.nul>>To: <ufoupdates.nul>>Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:56:58 -0500>Subject: Re: Why The Cover-Up?>Did you even read what I wrote? You're simply repeating to me>what I already outlined, namely that _while skeptical of cosmic>origin_ - a point I made very clear, and related the basis of>such doubt - scientists did investigate meteorite reports.>Investigators generally acknowledged that the stones plummeted>to the earth - not the simplistic formulation you originally>stated (no stones in sky; therefore, no stones falling from sky)>- but only later came to recognize their extraterrestrial>origin. This is a very standard scientific pattern. A natural>phenomenon is recognized; it is investigated; hypotheses about>its causes are formulated; eventually, after sufficient>investigation (and sometimes through fortuitous circumstance),>the cause is established.
Yes, there were various theories at the time of course. But the
theory that these stones came from outer space was dismissed at
first; read the quotes again I posted before:
"In his book, however, Chladni took the next great leap and
concluded these objects could only come from space. For this he
was immediately ridiculed, then ignored."
"Eventually the story found its way to the White House in
Washington, D.C. President Thomas Jefferson was a scientist as
well as statesman. When he heard this peculiar story he declared
it could not be true..."
That's my point; that a particular theory was ridiculed by some
at first, then later shown to be true. It's as simple as that.
Those scientists at the time were at least willing to admit
later that was indeed the explanation because evidence was found
to support it. If similar evidence was to be confirmed
supporting a terrestrial explanation for some UFO reports, would
you be willing to acknowledge you were wrong? I'm not
proclaiming that some of these other theories must be true and
the ETH isn't, I'm just open-minded to various ideas. And yes,
that includes other terrestrial beings, perhaps even inter-
dimensional. More and more scientists now support the
possibility of multiple dimensions, universes or time travel.
For those ideas to be labelled as impossible by debunkers and
apparently even some ufologists, is unfortunate.
Paul Scott Anderson
founder
Canadian Crop Circle Research Network
www.cccrn.ca
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http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/sdi/program/